well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/ak4r54626380774p/">Journal of Economic Inequality</A>. …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill … makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life is a potentially important mechanism through … which health may generate, and possibly sustain, economic inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the …

inequality. This paper presents an experiment which disentangles concerns for risk and inequality in a social risk context … terms of dispersion. We disentangle four types of dispersion: ex ante inequality, ex post inequality, individual risk, and … collective risk. The results show that people are averse towards ex ante inequality and individual risk, whereas they are ex post …

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …

consumption-pattern based inequality index that summarizes the projection of inequality through expenditure patterns. Estimation …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …